The Birth of Tragedy (ISBN 1595479295)

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Whatever might have been be the basis for this dubious book, it must have been a question of the utmost importance and charm, as well as a deeply personal one. Testimony to that effect is the time in which it arose (in spite of which it arose), that disturbing era of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. While the thunderclap of the Battle of Worth was reverberating across Europe, the meditative lover of enigmas whose lot it was to father this book sat somewhere in a corner of the Alps, extremely reflective and perplexed (thus simultaneously very distressed and carefree) and wrote down his thoughts concerning the Greeks, the kernel of that odd and difficult book to which this later preface (or postscript) should be dedicated. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.

The Op. 1 of Frederic Niezsche !:
The first essay of this giant philosopher is deeply influenced for the echoes of Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner and pretends expose a new conception of the world : the tragic thought, , the intuition of the unity of the things , the converse affirmation of the life and death , the timeless return , the innocence of becoming . Fundamental text if you want to get ready for the Apollonian and Dionisus duel!

defective merchandise:
This is one of maybe five reviews I've ever written online. I only do so if I absolutely love a product or am absolutely appalled by something I wish a fellow amazon addict had included in an online review. This will be the latter. This book is rife with translation errors. Not even so much translation errors because I don't speak German but basic grammatical mistakes; "From another perspective we see the force of this un-Dionysian spirit in action directing its effects against myth, when we turn our gaze toward the way in which the way in which the presentation..." -page 56 (this is just one in a long list of examples). Another weird fact about this book is that it is the size of a magazine? I have no fundamental problem with that, I loved JG Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition which had the same dimensions; however because this book is a mere 80 pages it's just awkward to read. Do yourself a favor and buy another version of this book that doesn't have an abundance of errors. The only saving grace for this POS are the ideas contained therein.

Nietzsche's Best, in my opinion:
This is a slendor volume, yet it is my favorite of all of Nietzsche's works. So far as I can tell it is a fairly good translation, but obviously this book has not gotten the amount of attention that his other works have, so perhaps the definitive translation has not yet arrived. In my opinion, this book offers original and excellent insights in the area of classical scholarship. It also provides a good introduction for Nietzsche's later philosophy. I also feel that it is a must read for creative people.

Just some logistics...:
Just so you know, THIS particular copy of The Birth of Tragedy is NOT split up into the chapters. It's just continuous text all the way through. This is not much of a problem for the recreational reader, but as I am a student, I had to know exactly which portions to focus on. I had to find a text copy online so I knew where to write the numbers. The cover looks like it was made MS Paint too...

Great value:
The book is a great value for the price, but there isn't much in the way of extras. I just wanted the text, though, and this is great.